Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1887-01-07

great 0o1I Of Utff only Wucu eNt NNt
something new to make up. or some
/! thing old to alter over; and then. sh'
and pennis were out most Of the time
strolling among the rocks or planting /
new flower-garden, or she was going tx
meet him coming from his work, or run
ming into the next ncighbors s. aero thu
/ pasture, and had almost nothing of her
except at tyying-on times. / used Il
wonder at Louie then, q little, some
times; not for not sitting at home sew.
! ing and helping me on the work, because
| yon might as well have asked a hum
ming bird to do that; bat for not taking
more interest in the house and keeping
things trig and tidy. And used to be
afraid that i'll were Dennis, and there
were holes in my socks, and half the but
ftons of my clothes. and my coat and hat
never brushed, and came home and
found nothing for dinner not even the
cloth laid land my wife off enjoying
herself somewhere else, and the dust
everywhere 50 that could write my
name, that shouldn't feel recompensed
for all that by having my wife stroll
round hanging on my arm, looking as
pretty as q new-blown rose. And yet al
though the house must often have been
thoroughly uncomfortable to Dennis, he
never gave sign thatit was not paradise
itself; and came to the conclusion that
he didn' t really miss those other things,
and was satisfied with what he had.
used to go up into the Eden some
times without being sent for, and mend
up everything, and put the whole house
on account Of my work; and, beside,
had sensation of intruding where two
people wanted but each Other.
But at last the babies came; and then
! had TO 60. And Louie was wild with
delight, and insisted On having them
laid on the pillow close to her cheek, and
talked and laughed and cooed and cried
to them with such glittering eyes and
dazzling color in her face, and said it was
all she wanted, even if she were in Heaven
to morrow!
but your husband, Iouier I ex-
claimed.
sOhi husbands are all very well, 7 she
said But hasen't been such an aw-
fully good wife You'd have made
Dennis great deal better wife, dear. for
the matter Of that. But my little sons!
Oh. I know could be good mother
she was in Heaven tomorrow, the
dear little innocent soul, and one Of the
babes went with her.
was glad that the little badly went
too. For remembered that she had
said then she would have all she wanted
because it troubled me to think that, for
all his grief to-day, Dennis wouldn't be
like any other man in the world if he
didn't marry tomorrow and the other
wife would have the long life with him,
and become dearer and dearer, and Louie
would fade into just beautiful dream
and when the next life came, it would be
the dear wife oil. the long continuing
time that would be his companion. and
Louie would be all alone if it wasn't for
the baby, and she had said that the baby
was enough. Of course all this was only
sort of flash through my consciousness,
not any deliberate thought. Nobody
could have thought about anything Of
the kind who saw DenDis's grief. He
was all beside himself. / don't like to
tell you what he said and did; / was
half afraid sometimes that thunderbolt
would fall and dest.oy him; and then
again was afraid that he would destroy
himself. don't know how we ever con-
trived to get him to let Louie be placed
in her caskst, and thought he would
jump into the very grave itself. But at last
that agoni ing time every moment of
which knows how to give fresh stab
was over, and the worse time came,
Of the absence and silence, and wild,
vain, bitter longing. And Dennis couldn't
look at the baby ssTake it away he
said. 1T killed her.'' So took him into
my own room, and cuddled him close to
my heart every night, and every morning